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<blockquote data-quote="AndBreathe" data-source="post: 1209261" data-attributes="member: 88961"><p>Personally, I haven't and wouldn't have a gastric surgery to improve my diabetes state. Aside from the potential complications during and post-surgery I know from someone I know that it's absolutely not the easy option many (and I'm not necessarily including you) many folks think.</p><p></p><p>It's a traumatic process and afterwards, there does still need to be self control over diet. Sure, it reduces the capacity of the stomach, but it's success can be limited by liquidising Mars bars, of other such foods, and if the patient continually over-eats, their "new tummy" will just stretch, so negating their longer term benefits.</p><p></p><p>The friend who had it done was extremely obese when she had it done, with a family history of youthful, catastrophic heart incidents, so she (naturally enough) wants too avoid those. It was doubly mystifying why, bearing in mind the much publicised knowledge, plus being an extremely highly qualified health care professional, she continued to smoke, and liquidised said Mars bars, chocolate, curry with rice and so on.</p><p></p><p>Initially, she did lose a massive amount of weight, but she had done nothing to moderate her diet, and over time, stretched be new tummy, so such a state that it negated the impact of the procedure.</p><p></p><p>So, a while longer she was no further forward than her starting health markers, but was a massive amount of cash out of pocket, as she had the procedure in the US, and had ditched all her larger clothes, as she went through her weight loss process, but then grew out of them again, in pretty short order. It was incredibly, incredibly sad to watch sad.</p><p></p><p>I wish you well with whatever you decide to do.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AndBreathe, post: 1209261, member: 88961"] Personally, I haven't and wouldn't have a gastric surgery to improve my diabetes state. Aside from the potential complications during and post-surgery I know from someone I know that it's absolutely not the easy option many (and I'm not necessarily including you) many folks think. It's a traumatic process and afterwards, there does still need to be self control over diet. Sure, it reduces the capacity of the stomach, but it's success can be limited by liquidising Mars bars, of other such foods, and if the patient continually over-eats, their "new tummy" will just stretch, so negating their longer term benefits. The friend who had it done was extremely obese when she had it done, with a family history of youthful, catastrophic heart incidents, so she (naturally enough) wants too avoid those. It was doubly mystifying why, bearing in mind the much publicised knowledge, plus being an extremely highly qualified health care professional, she continued to smoke, and liquidised said Mars bars, chocolate, curry with rice and so on. Initially, she did lose a massive amount of weight, but she had done nothing to moderate her diet, and over time, stretched be new tummy, so such a state that it negated the impact of the procedure. So, a while longer she was no further forward than her starting health markers, but was a massive amount of cash out of pocket, as she had the procedure in the US, and had ditched all her larger clothes, as she went through her weight loss process, but then grew out of them again, in pretty short order. It was incredibly, incredibly sad to watch sad. I wish you well with whatever you decide to do. [/QUOTE]
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